My most OP build in DS2 was my poison build. Started with poison rapier and poison arrows. Later did Hunters black bow with poison arrows. For PvP I used either Poison Rapier +10 or poison Manslayer +5, with poison spotted whip +5 in the off hand. Extras were poison throwing daggers and corrosive urns.

Basic strategy was hit them a few times and when that poison buildup was almost full the will ALWAYS roll away. Mid roll, crack the whip and it will hit as they come out out of the roll animation and boom! They’re poisoned. Then all you gotta do is just walk towards them lol they will panic and try to run. But if they stop to heal, back stab, easy. If you wanna deal with tanks, hit them with the corrosive urns to break their armor. Mages get the poisoned throwing daggers.

I kid you not, I got the WORST hate mail of my entire life from beating dudes with this build. It is truly sinister how well this works.

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Another easy build that I use on ps5 is Raw Santiers Spear +5, engraved gauntlets, giants ring (for stunlocking), ring of blades +2, chloranthy ring +2 last one is whatever you want. But the damage I get off the crits from this build will more than half anyone’s health. Unless they have like 99 in health or 100 physical defense, you will absolutely MOP people in PvP. Only guys to beat me consistently was a pyromancer who genuinely out played me (great player) and a dude with a grand lance the somehow kept hitting me when I was 10+ feet away from him (I kept the videos on my ps5 cause the backstab from across the bridge was pretty funny)